conversation with president obama in the oval office. so i think one thing to keep in mind here, donald trump has before he ran for president as a republican he was always a manhattan liberal. so there s more of him potentially coming out here. if he goes down this path, he will get himself into a fight with conservatives over this. so who knows if this is just a trial balloon or what not. but him leaving the door open to this is probably giving some heartburn to conservatives. and he said he s doing this out of respect to the president, that 90-minute meeting he had yesterday. give us the behind the scenes decision for the change in the transition team, the vice president-elect mike pence is now in charge, chris christie not so much. another effort to turn down the temperature hear in washington. what we were hearing behind the scenes is that chris christie was running into some trouble because he was trying to persuade trump and other people that, listen, we ve got to hire so
outside in washington tonight on friday, the leaders of this, all the principals, have been really having living up to a good example here, the obamas, the clintons, the trumps in terms of how they re acting. the most important thing is what happens from here. i do not expect hillary clinton or bill clinton to be advisers to donald trump. you remember this, i remember it too. it was a decade or so ago, that bill and hillary clinton were actually invited to his wedding when he married melania. so they have a history, these people, as you well know. right. they kind of circulated in the same circled in new york for many years. and donald trump had expressed many liberal new york views. ted cruz talked about new york values. but i think this is not what this presidency is going to be. i think what you are seeing in the protests is probably more of an accurate reflection. we had an enormous divide in the country, and we ended up with an
direction. i think that s why trump has won this election. they want change. reporter: as a new political order falls over washington, democrats are looking back before they can look forward. two central questions why did college educated voters turn away from clinton at the end? and why did working class voters even democrats long friendly to the clintons, go another way? in the end, they were scared. they cared about their job. they re tired of the status quo. and they voted to shake it up. reporter: cnn has learned there was also considerable second guessing about not paying closer attention to bill clinton s advice, to focus on disaffected white working class voters. now for the first time in a generation, the democratic party is moving forward without a clinton in the mix. today, an early scramble to lead the democratic national committee. congressman keith ellison, labor
secretary tom perez, and former governor martin o malley among the names eyeing bids. bernie sanders and chuck schumer throwing their support behind ellison. it was ellison who suggested on a sunday talk show president trump was a possibility. anybody from the democratic side of the fence who thinks that who is terrified of the possibility of president trump, better vote, better get active, better get involved. because this man has some momentum and we better be ready. reporter: so as the future of the democratic party is taking shape here in washington, hillary clinton will be taking her leave. i m told tonight, she will be at a staff party in brooklyn, she will be attending to thank her staffers for all their hard work. thank you very much. let s get more on the future of the democratic party and hillary